Spatial and temporal variability in vegetation and coal facies as reflected by organic petrological and geochemical data in the Middle Miocene Cayirhan coal field (Turkey)

BECHTEL A., KARAYİĞİT A. İ., SACHSENHOFER R. F., Inaner H., Christanis K., GRATZER R.

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COAL GEOLOGY, vol.134, pp.46-60, 2014 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 134
  • Publication Date: 2014
  • Doi Number: 10.1016/j.coal.2014.09.011
  • Journal Name: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COAL GEOLOGY
  • Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Page Numbers: pp.46-60
  • Keywords: Biomarker, Cayirhan coal field, Coal facies, Maceral, Miocene, Vegetation, CENTRAL-ANATOLIA, TRITERPENOID HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC-HYDROCARBONS, ANCIENT SEDIMENTS, BEYPAZARI BASIN, MACERAL RATIOS, LAKE-SEDIMENTS, CENTRAL-EUROPE, FOSSIL WOOD, LIGNITE
  • Hacettepe University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

Coal channel samples of Middle Miocene age are collected from the first (Tv) and second (Tb) seams from underground mines and from exploration boreholes within the cayirhan coal field in the Beypazari Basin (Turkey). They are investigated in order to detect spatial and temporal changes in maceral and molecular composition of coal and to relate them to changes in vegetation and depositional environment.